Verdant Counseling and Consulting

Ever Learning, Ever Growing, Evergreen

You already know why you do what you do…

Now What?

Awareness is a great place to start, but a terrible place to get stuck.

If insight hasn’t changed your day-to-day life, you don't need more "talk"…

you need integration.

Therapy Intensives
Couples Counseling
Individual Therapy
Group Therapy
A woman with glasses, long dark hair, a pink cap, and a maroon shirt smiling in a park with green trees, a city skyline, and mountains in the background on a sunny day.

I’m Kelsey (she/her), and I am an imperfect person.

I say that to drop the veil and share that I see the profound benefit of this schema-shifting work of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR, not just professionally with my clients, but personally.

I started Verdant after hearing client after client say something to the effect of

“I’ve been in therapy for years - I know exactly why I act this way but it doesn’t seem to matter. I’m exhausted.”

I hear you.

You know what activates you. You know that the way you’re responding is irrational. You’ve checked all the therapy boxes and you are ready to be done - or at least experience some tangible relief.

You don’t want to be in weekly therapy for years.

Neither do I. That’s why I created Verdant to have the time and space to offer a different path.

I offer Therapy Intensives, Group Therapy, Couples Counseling and Skill-Building Workshops in Concord, North Carolina, and virtually throughout NC. My goal is to give you a framework for a different way of communicating internally and externally, provide focused time to get past a stuck point or an entrenched negative belief, and get you back to your life with a renewed sense of connectedness, curiosity, and confidence.

What to expect in our sessions:

  • Authenticity: I will curse. I will be human.

  • Real Reactions: I’ll sometimes say, "Let me fix my face," when we discuss the craziness of the world we live in.

  • Clinically Appropriate Humor: Laughter is healing. And, I think I’m pretty funny. (Hopefully you do too!)

  • Focused Depth: Whether we are meeting in a group setting or a multi-day deep dive, you are getting a therapist who is as invested in your healing as you are.

Core Approaches:

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Level 1 Trained through IFS Institute

Pursuing Certification

EMDR Therapy

Basic Training through EMDRIA

Couples Therapy

Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO)

Discernment Counseling

IFS-Informed Group Therapy

The Space

Cozy therapy office to process attachment wounds, trauma through individual therapy, couples therapy, discernment counseling, and therapy intensives.
A cozy group room for a welcoming space to connect with others on a healing journey.
Sandtray Figurines to help process attachment wounds and trauma in an externalizing activity.
A card deck that shows images of different types of parts (managers, firefighters, exiles) created for Internal Family Systems IFS Therapy
EMDR Equipment including light bar, buzzies, and headphones to help process trauma in Integrated IFS and EMDR therapy.

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